1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
3 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
4 profiles only the current thread.
5 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
6 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
7 has also additional sorting options.
8 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
9 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
10 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
11 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
12 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
13 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
15 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
17 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
19 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
20 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
21 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
22 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIMP did not respect
23 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
25 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
26 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
27 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
28 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
29 use this feature in the meanwhile.
30 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
31 adjust thread default control stack size.
32 * enhancement: improved TIME output
33 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
34 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
35 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
36 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
37 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
38 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
39 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
40 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
42 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
44 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
45 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
46 in normal SPEED policies.
47 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
48 in normal SPEED policies.
49 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
51 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
52 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
53 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
54 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
55 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
56 as the second argument.
57 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
58 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
59 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
61 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
62 platform word lengths.
63 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
64 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
65 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
67 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
68 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
70 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
71 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
72 signaling added in 1.0.14.
73 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
74 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
75 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
76 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
77 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
78 as well. (thanks to Tobian Ritterweiler)
79 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
80 on threaded platforms.
81 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
82 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
83 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
84 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
85 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
86 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
87 representation is available.
88 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
89 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
90 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
92 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
93 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
94 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
95 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
96 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
97 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
98 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
99 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
100 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
102 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
103 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
104 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
105 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
106 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
107 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
108 traces SETF-functions as well.
109 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
110 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
111 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
112 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
114 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
115 is now more efficient.
116 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
117 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
118 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
119 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
120 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
121 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
122 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
123 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
124 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
125 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
126 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
128 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
129 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
130 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
131 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
132 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
133 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
134 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
135 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
136 * improvements to the Windows port:
137 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
138 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
140 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
141 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
142 (see documentation for details.)
143 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
144 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
145 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
146 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
147 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
149 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
150 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
151 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
152 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
153 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
154 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
155 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
156 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
157 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
159 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
160 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
161 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
162 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
163 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
164 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
165 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
167 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
168 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
169 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
170 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
171 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
172 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
173 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
174 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
176 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
177 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
178 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
179 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
180 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
181 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
182 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
183 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
184 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
185 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
186 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
187 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
188 known at compile-time.
189 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
190 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
191 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
193 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
194 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
196 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
197 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
198 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
199 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
200 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
201 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
203 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
205 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
207 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
210 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
211 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
212 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
213 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
214 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
215 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
216 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
217 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
218 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
219 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
220 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
221 END is smaller then START.
222 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
223 calls to profiled functions.
224 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
225 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
226 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
227 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
228 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
229 hash-table usage have been fixed.
230 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
231 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
232 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
233 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
234 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
237 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
238 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
239 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
240 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
241 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
242 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
243 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
244 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
245 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
246 and will signal an error at runtime.
247 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
248 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
249 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
251 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
252 platforms providing stack allocation support.
253 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
254 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
256 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
257 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
258 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
259 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
260 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
261 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
263 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
264 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
266 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
268 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
269 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
270 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
271 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
272 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
273 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
274 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
275 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
276 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
277 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
278 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
279 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
280 a specializer parameter for the method.
281 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
282 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
283 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
284 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
285 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
287 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
288 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
290 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
291 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
292 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
293 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
294 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
295 the CAS operation was being performed.
296 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
297 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
298 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
299 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
302 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
303 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
304 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
305 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
307 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
308 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
309 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
310 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
311 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
312 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
313 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
314 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
315 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
316 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
317 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
318 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
319 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
320 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
321 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
323 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
324 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
325 the underlying file descriptor.
326 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
327 could cause buffer-overflows.
328 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
329 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
330 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
332 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
334 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
335 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
336 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
337 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
338 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
339 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
342 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
343 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
344 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
345 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
346 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
347 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
348 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
350 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
352 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
353 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
354 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
355 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
356 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
357 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
359 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
360 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
361 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
362 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
363 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
364 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
365 objects that can be seen by the GC.
366 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
367 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
368 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
370 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
371 as the property-list of a symbol.
372 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
373 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
374 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
377 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
378 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
379 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
380 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
381 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
382 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
383 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
384 debugging and introspective support.
385 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
386 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
387 has the owning thread as its value.
388 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
389 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
391 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
393 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
394 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
395 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
396 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
397 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
398 (depending on the bignum size.)
399 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
401 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
402 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
404 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
405 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
407 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
408 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
409 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
410 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
411 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
414 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
415 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
417 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
418 significantly faster.
419 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
420 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
421 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
422 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
423 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
424 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
425 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
426 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
427 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
428 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
429 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
431 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
433 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
434 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
435 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
436 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
437 that use the generational garbage collector
438 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
440 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
441 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
443 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
445 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
446 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
447 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
448 system running with GC inhibited.
449 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
450 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
451 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
452 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
453 (reported by Peter Graves)
455 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
456 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
457 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
459 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
460 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
461 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
462 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
463 documented as unsafe.
464 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
465 in multithreaded application code.
466 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
467 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
468 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
470 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
471 variants no longer cons.
472 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
473 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
474 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
475 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
476 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
477 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
478 are significantly faster.
479 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
480 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
481 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
482 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
483 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
484 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
485 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
486 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
487 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
488 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
489 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
491 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
492 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
493 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
494 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
495 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
496 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
497 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
498 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
499 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
500 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
501 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
502 line in a file is unlimited.
503 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
504 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
505 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
506 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
507 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
508 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
509 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
510 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
511 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
512 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
513 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
514 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
515 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
516 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
517 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
518 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
519 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
520 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
521 experimental until this is fixed.
522 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
523 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
524 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
525 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
526 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
528 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
529 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
530 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
531 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
532 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
533 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
535 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
536 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
537 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
538 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
539 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
540 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
541 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
542 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
543 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
545 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
546 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
547 (reported by Andras Simon)
548 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
549 bugs remain on x86-64.)
550 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
551 funcallable instances.
552 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
553 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
555 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
556 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
557 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
558 non-base strings as arguments
559 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
561 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
562 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
564 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
565 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
566 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
567 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
568 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
569 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
570 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
571 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
572 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
574 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
575 (thanks to Jon Buller)
576 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
577 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
580 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
581 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
582 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
584 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
585 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
586 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
587 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
588 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
590 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
591 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
592 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
593 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
594 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
595 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
596 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
597 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
598 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
599 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
600 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
601 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
602 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
603 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
604 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
605 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
606 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
607 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
608 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
609 stack frames from alien callbacks.
610 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
611 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
612 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
613 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
615 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
616 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
617 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
618 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
619 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
620 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
621 sb-introspect contrib.
622 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
623 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
624 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
625 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
626 users and the general community)
627 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
628 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
629 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
630 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
631 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
632 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
633 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
634 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
635 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
636 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
637 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
638 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
639 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
640 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
641 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
642 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
644 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
645 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
646 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
647 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
648 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
649 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
650 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
652 * improvements to the Windows port:
653 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
654 to Alastair Bridgewater)
655 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
657 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
658 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
660 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
661 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
662 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
663 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
664 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
665 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
666 core, and restored on startup.
667 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
668 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
669 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
670 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
671 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
672 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
673 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
675 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
676 (thanks to Zach Beane)
677 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
679 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
680 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
681 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
683 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
684 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
685 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
686 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
687 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
688 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
690 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
691 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
692 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
693 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
694 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
695 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
696 (reported by Josip Gracin)
697 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
698 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
699 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
700 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
701 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
702 and don't cause extra consing
703 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
704 whose elements types have been declared.
705 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
706 ** Support for allocation profiling
707 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
708 * Improvements to the Windows port:
709 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
710 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
711 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
712 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
714 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
715 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
716 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
717 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
718 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
720 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
721 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
722 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
724 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
725 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
726 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
727 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
728 with non-variable places
729 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
730 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
731 code more stable against memory faults.
732 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
733 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
734 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
735 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
738 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
739 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
740 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
741 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
742 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
743 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
744 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
745 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
746 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
747 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
748 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
749 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
750 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
752 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
753 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
754 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
755 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
756 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
757 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
758 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
760 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
761 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
763 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
764 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
765 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
766 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
767 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
768 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
769 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
770 to the single-stepper REPL.
771 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
772 for a type now works.
773 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
775 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
776 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
777 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
778 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
779 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
780 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
781 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
782 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
784 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
785 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
786 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
787 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
788 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
789 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
790 whose bindings are modified
791 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
792 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
793 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
794 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
796 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
797 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
798 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
799 as specified by AMOP.
800 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
802 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
803 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
804 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
805 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
806 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
807 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
808 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
809 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
810 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
811 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
812 better type inference.
813 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
814 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
815 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
816 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
817 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
818 (reported by Bruno Haible)
819 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
820 initialization of methods can now be used to override
821 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
823 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
824 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
825 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
826 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
827 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
829 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
830 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
831 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
832 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
833 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
834 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
835 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
836 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
837 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
838 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
839 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
840 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
841 (reported by James Y Knight).
842 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
843 argument for shadowing by local functions.
844 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
846 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
847 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
849 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
851 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
852 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
853 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
855 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
856 * thread-safety improvements:
857 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
858 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
859 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
861 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
862 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
864 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
865 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
866 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
868 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
869 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
870 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
871 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
872 class became finalizeable.
873 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
874 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
875 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
876 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
878 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
879 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
880 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
881 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
882 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
883 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
884 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
885 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
886 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
887 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
888 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
889 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
890 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
891 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
892 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
893 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
894 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
895 * minor code generation optimizations:
896 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
897 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
898 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
899 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
900 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
901 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
902 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
905 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
906 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
908 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
910 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
911 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
912 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
913 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
914 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
915 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
916 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
917 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
918 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
919 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
920 the low-level debugger.
921 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
922 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
923 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
924 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
926 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
927 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
928 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
930 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
931 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
932 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
933 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
934 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
935 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
936 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
937 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
938 (reported by James Y Knight)
939 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
940 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
941 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
942 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
943 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
944 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
945 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
946 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
947 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
948 workaround for bug 403.)
949 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
950 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
951 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
952 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
954 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
955 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
956 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
958 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
959 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
960 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
961 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
962 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
964 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
966 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
967 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
968 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
971 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
972 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
973 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
974 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
975 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
976 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
977 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
978 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
979 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
980 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
981 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
982 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
983 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
984 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
985 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
986 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
987 documentation on package locks for details.
988 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
990 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
991 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
992 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
993 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
994 immediately available from the stream
995 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
996 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
997 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
998 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
1000 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
1001 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
1002 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
1004 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
1005 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
1006 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
1008 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
1009 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
1010 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
1011 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
1013 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1014 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
1015 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
1016 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1017 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
1018 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
1019 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1020 ** sb-grovel supported
1021 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
1022 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
1023 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
1024 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
1025 ** floating-point exception handling support
1026 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
1027 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1028 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1029 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
1030 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
1031 structure accessors.
1032 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
1034 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
1035 defaults for optional parameters.
1036 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
1037 function, which is already optimized.
1039 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
1040 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
1041 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
1042 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
1043 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
1044 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
1045 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
1046 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
1047 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
1048 this change is to make it easier to distribute
1049 location-independent binaries.
1050 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
1051 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
1053 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
1054 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
1055 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
1056 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
1057 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
1058 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
1059 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
1060 Alastair Bridgewater)
1061 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
1062 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
1063 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1064 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
1065 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
1066 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
1067 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
1068 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
1069 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1070 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
1071 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
1072 (thanks to James Knight)
1073 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
1074 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
1076 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
1077 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
1078 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
1079 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
1080 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
1081 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
1082 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
1083 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
1084 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
1085 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
1086 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
1087 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
1088 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
1089 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
1090 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
1091 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
1092 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
1093 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
1094 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
1095 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
1096 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
1098 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
1099 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
1100 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
1101 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1102 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
1103 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
1105 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
1106 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
1107 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
1108 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
1109 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
1110 many others over the years)
1111 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
1112 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
1113 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
1115 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
1116 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
1117 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1118 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
1119 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
1120 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
1122 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
1124 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
1125 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
1126 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
1127 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
1128 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
1129 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
1130 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
1131 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
1132 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
1133 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
1134 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
1135 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1136 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
1137 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1139 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
1140 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1141 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
1142 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
1143 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
1144 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
1145 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
1146 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
1147 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
1148 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1149 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
1150 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
1151 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
1152 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
1153 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
1154 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
1155 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
1156 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1157 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
1158 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
1160 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
1161 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1162 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
1163 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
1164 index variables in LOOP
1165 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
1166 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1167 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
1168 that don't have a docstring
1170 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
1171 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1172 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
1173 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
1174 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
1175 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
1176 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
1177 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
1178 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
1179 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
1180 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
1181 Costanza's "Closer" project)
1182 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
1183 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
1185 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
1186 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
1187 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
1188 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
1189 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
1190 and Pascal Costanza)
1191 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
1192 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
1193 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
1194 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
1195 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1196 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
1197 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
1198 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
1199 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1200 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
1201 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1202 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
1203 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1204 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
1205 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1206 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
1207 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
1208 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
1209 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
1211 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
1212 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1213 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
1214 floating point index variable or a negative step.
1216 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
1217 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
1218 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
1219 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
1220 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
1221 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1222 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
1223 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
1224 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
1225 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1226 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1227 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
1228 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
1229 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
1230 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1231 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
1232 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
1233 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
1234 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
1235 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
1236 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
1237 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1238 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
1239 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1240 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
1241 and dump core on SIGQUIT
1243 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
1244 from their parents (see manual)
1245 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
1246 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1247 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1248 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1249 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1250 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1252 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1253 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1254 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1255 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1257 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1258 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1259 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1261 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1262 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1263 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1264 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1265 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1266 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1267 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1268 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1269 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1270 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1271 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1272 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1273 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1274 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1276 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1277 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1278 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1280 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1281 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1283 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1284 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1285 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1286 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1287 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1288 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1289 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1290 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1291 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1293 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1294 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1295 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1296 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1297 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1298 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1300 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1302 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1303 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1304 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1305 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1306 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1307 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1308 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1309 classes; see the manual for more details;
1310 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1311 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1312 requested slot ordering.
1314 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1316 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1317 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1319 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1321 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1322 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1323 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1324 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1325 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1326 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1327 the :method-class keyword argument.
1329 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1330 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1331 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1332 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1333 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1334 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1335 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1336 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1337 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1338 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1339 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1341 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1342 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1343 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1344 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1345 is switched on or off
1346 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1347 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1348 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1350 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1351 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1352 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1353 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1354 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1355 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1356 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1357 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1358 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1360 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1361 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1362 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1363 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1364 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1365 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1366 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1368 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1369 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1370 not prevent gc from running
1371 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1372 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1373 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1374 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1375 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1376 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1377 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1378 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1380 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1381 there is only one thread in the session
1382 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1383 written to in another
1384 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1385 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1387 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1388 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1390 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1391 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1392 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1393 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1394 the orignal arguments.
1395 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1397 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1398 name a compiled function.
1399 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1400 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1401 derivation were fixed.
1402 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1403 list-form FUNCTION type.
1404 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1405 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1406 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1408 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1409 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1410 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1411 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1412 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1413 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1415 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1416 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1417 of a select system call
1418 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1420 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1421 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1423 * various error reporting improvements.
1424 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1425 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1426 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1427 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1428 code and foreign data with the same name.
1430 ** added x86-64 support
1431 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1432 objects instead of thread ids
1433 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1434 starting up or going down
1435 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1436 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1437 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1438 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1439 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1440 an inappropriate moment
1441 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1442 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1443 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1444 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1445 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1446 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1447 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1449 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1450 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1451 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1452 range before calling Unix time functions
1454 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1455 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1456 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1457 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1458 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1459 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1460 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1461 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1462 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1463 for more information.
1464 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1465 pathname is a directory pathname.
1466 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1467 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1469 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1470 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1471 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1472 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1473 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1474 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1476 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1477 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1478 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1479 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1480 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1481 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1482 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1483 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1484 the PowerPC platform.
1485 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1486 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1488 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1489 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1490 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1491 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1492 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1493 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1495 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1496 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1497 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1498 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1499 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1500 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1501 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1502 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1503 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1504 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1505 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1506 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1507 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1508 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1509 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1510 FLET or MACROLET forms
1511 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1513 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1515 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1518 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1519 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1520 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1521 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1522 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1523 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1524 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1525 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1526 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1527 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1528 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1529 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1530 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1531 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1532 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1533 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1534 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1535 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1536 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1537 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1538 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1539 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1541 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1542 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1543 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1544 a file has the stream as its datum.
1545 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1546 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1547 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1548 a correct expected type
1549 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1550 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1551 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1552 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1553 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1554 on broadcast streams.
1556 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1557 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1558 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1559 --disable-debugger option instead.
1560 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1562 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1563 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1564 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1565 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1566 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1567 has been added to the manual.
1568 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1569 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1570 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1571 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1572 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1573 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1574 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1575 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1576 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1577 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1579 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1580 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1581 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1582 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1583 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1584 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1586 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1587 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1588 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1589 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1590 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1591 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1592 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1593 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1594 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1595 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1596 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1597 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1598 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1599 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1600 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1601 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1602 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1603 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1604 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1606 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1608 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1609 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1610 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1611 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1612 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1614 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1615 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1616 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1617 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1618 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1619 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1620 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1622 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1623 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1624 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1626 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1627 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1628 types for complex arguments better.
1629 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1631 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1632 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1634 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1635 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1636 resulting in GC crashes.
1637 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1639 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1642 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1643 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1644 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1645 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1646 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1647 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1648 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1649 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1650 returning to the top level.
1651 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1652 global optimization policy.
1653 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1654 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1655 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1657 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1658 various incompatible changes.
1659 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1660 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1661 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1662 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1663 level local call to FOO".
1664 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1665 now have more legible printed representation
1666 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1667 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1668 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1669 explicitly requested.
1670 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1671 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1672 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1673 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1674 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1676 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1677 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1678 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1679 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1680 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1681 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1682 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1683 the specializer is now possible.
1684 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1685 face of package deletion.
1686 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1687 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1688 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1689 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1690 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1691 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1692 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1693 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1694 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1695 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1697 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1698 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1699 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1700 correctable errors to be signalled.
1701 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1702 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1705 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1706 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1707 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1709 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1710 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1711 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1712 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1713 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1714 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1715 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1716 related to the ~@F format directive.
1717 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1719 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1720 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1721 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1722 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1724 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1726 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1727 coerce function designators to functions.
1728 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1729 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1730 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1731 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1732 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1733 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1734 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1735 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1736 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1737 start of the buffer at the next read.
1738 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1739 passing it through to OPEN.
1740 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1741 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1742 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1743 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1744 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1745 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1746 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1747 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1749 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1750 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1751 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1752 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1753 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1754 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1756 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1757 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1758 secondary constituent character trait.
1759 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1761 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1763 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1764 works more reliably.
1765 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1766 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1767 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1769 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1770 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1772 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1773 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1774 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1775 and reloading shared object files.
1776 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1777 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1779 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1780 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1781 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1783 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1784 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1786 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1788 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1789 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1790 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1791 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1792 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1793 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1794 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1796 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1797 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1799 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1800 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1801 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1802 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1803 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1805 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1806 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1807 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1808 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1809 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1810 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1811 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1812 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1813 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1814 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1815 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1816 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1817 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1818 the correct number of arguments.
1819 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1820 to displaced strings.
1821 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1822 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1824 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1825 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1826 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1827 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1828 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1829 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1830 available at runtime.
1831 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1832 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1833 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1834 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1835 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1836 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1837 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1838 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1839 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1840 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1841 of lambda-list keywords.
1842 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1843 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1845 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1846 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1847 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1848 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1849 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1850 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1851 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1853 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1854 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1855 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1856 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1857 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1859 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1860 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1861 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1862 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1863 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1864 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1865 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1867 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1868 parameters correctly.
1869 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1870 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1871 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1873 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1876 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1877 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1878 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1879 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1881 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1882 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1883 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1884 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1885 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1886 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1887 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1888 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1889 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1891 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1892 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1894 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1896 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1897 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1898 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1899 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1901 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1902 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1903 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1904 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1905 (reported by David Morse)
1906 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1907 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1908 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1909 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1910 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1911 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1912 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1913 now exists, an signals an error.
1914 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1915 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1916 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1917 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1918 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1919 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1920 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1921 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1922 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1923 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1924 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1925 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1927 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1928 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1929 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1930 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1931 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1932 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1933 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1934 specialized array element types.
1935 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1936 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1937 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1938 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1939 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1940 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1941 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1942 Wragg for the simple test case)
1943 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1944 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1946 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1947 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1948 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1949 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1950 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1952 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1954 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1955 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1956 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1957 references to global functions.
1958 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1960 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1962 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1963 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1964 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1965 supported platforms.
1966 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1967 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1968 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1969 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1970 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1971 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1972 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1973 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1974 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1975 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1976 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1977 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1978 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1980 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1981 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1982 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1983 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1984 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1985 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1987 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1988 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1990 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1991 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1992 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1993 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1994 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1995 returns the right answer.
1996 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1998 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
2000 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
2001 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
2003 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
2004 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
2006 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
2007 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
2008 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
2009 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
2010 the supported interface.
2011 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
2012 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
2013 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2014 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
2015 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
2016 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
2017 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
2018 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2019 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
2020 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
2021 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
2022 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
2023 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2024 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
2025 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
2026 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
2027 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
2028 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
2029 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
2030 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
2031 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
2032 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
2033 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
2034 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
2035 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
2036 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
2037 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2038 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
2039 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
2041 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
2042 * incompatible change: the internal functions
2043 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
2044 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
2045 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
2046 instead of the old functions.
2047 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
2048 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
2050 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
2051 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
2053 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
2054 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
2055 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
2056 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
2058 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
2059 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2060 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
2061 (reported by Rick Taube)
2062 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
2063 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
2064 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
2065 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
2067 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
2068 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
2069 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
2070 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
2071 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2072 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
2073 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
2074 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
2075 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
2076 represented relative to default pathnames.
2077 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
2078 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
2079 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
2081 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
2082 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
2083 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
2085 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2086 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
2087 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
2088 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
2090 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
2092 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
2093 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
2094 conditional newlines.
2095 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
2096 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
2097 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
2099 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
2100 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
2102 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
2103 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
2104 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
2105 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
2106 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
2107 compiled in unconditionally.
2108 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
2109 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
2110 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
2111 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
2112 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
2114 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
2115 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
2116 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
2117 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
2118 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
2119 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
2120 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
2121 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
2122 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
2123 an implementation-internal package.
2124 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
2126 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
2127 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
2128 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
2129 bodies are now more legible.
2130 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
2131 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
2132 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
2133 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
2134 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2135 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
2136 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
2138 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
2139 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
2140 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
2141 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
2142 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
2143 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
2144 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
2145 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
2146 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
2147 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
2149 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
2150 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
2151 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
2152 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
2153 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
2154 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
2155 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
2156 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
2157 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
2158 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
2159 system even when most of them are idle
2160 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
2161 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2162 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
2164 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
2165 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
2166 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
2167 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
2168 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
2170 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
2171 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
2172 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
2173 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
2174 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
2175 string for information on the protocol.
2176 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
2177 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
2179 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
2180 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
2182 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
2183 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
2184 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
2185 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
2186 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
2187 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
2189 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
2190 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
2192 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
2193 move between its address being taken and the call to
2194 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
2195 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
2196 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
2197 instances corresponding to C structs.
2199 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
2200 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
2201 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
2202 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
2203 has implications for memory management of client code
2204 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
2205 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
2206 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
2207 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
2208 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
2209 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
2210 quality should be considered deprecated.
2211 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
2212 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
2213 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
2214 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
2215 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
2217 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
2218 designator as the defaults argument.
2219 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
2220 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
2221 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2222 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
2223 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
2225 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
2227 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
2228 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2229 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
2230 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
2231 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2232 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
2234 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
2235 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2236 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
2237 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
2238 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
2239 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
2240 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2241 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
2242 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
2243 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
2244 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
2245 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2246 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2247 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2248 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2249 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2250 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2252 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2253 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2254 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2256 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2257 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2258 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2259 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2260 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2261 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2262 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2263 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2264 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2266 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2267 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2269 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2270 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2272 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2273 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2274 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2275 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2277 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2278 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2279 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2280 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2281 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2282 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2283 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2284 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2286 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2287 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2288 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2290 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2291 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2293 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2294 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2296 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2297 from local to shared slots.
2298 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2299 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2300 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2301 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2303 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2304 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2305 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2306 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2307 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2308 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2309 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2310 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2311 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2313 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2315 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2317 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2318 print using #P"..." syntax.
2320 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2321 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2322 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2323 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2324 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2325 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2326 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2327 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2328 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2329 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2330 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2331 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2332 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2333 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2334 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2335 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2336 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2337 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2338 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2339 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2340 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2341 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2342 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2343 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2344 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2345 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2346 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2347 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2348 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2349 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2350 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2351 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2354 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2355 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2356 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2357 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2358 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2359 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2360 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2361 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2362 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2363 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2364 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2365 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2366 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2368 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2369 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2371 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2372 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2373 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2374 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2375 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2376 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2378 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2379 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2380 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2382 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2384 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2386 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2387 their output stream on EOF from read.
2388 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2389 have been read to end-of-file.
2390 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2392 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2393 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2395 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2396 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2397 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2398 less than 10 works correctly.
2399 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2400 more than 10 works correctly.
2401 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2402 the readtable currently in effect.
2404 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2405 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2406 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2407 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2408 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2409 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2410 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2411 should usually be replaced by
2412 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2413 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2414 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2415 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2416 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2417 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2418 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2419 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2421 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2422 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2423 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2424 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2425 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2426 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2427 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2428 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2429 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2430 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2431 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2432 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2433 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2435 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2436 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2437 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2438 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2439 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2440 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2441 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2442 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2443 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2444 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2445 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2446 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2447 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2448 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2449 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2450 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2451 non-local entry points.
2452 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2454 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2455 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2457 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2458 host is already defined.
2459 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2461 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2462 or not a character is whitespace.
2463 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2464 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2465 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2467 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2468 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2470 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2472 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2473 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2474 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2475 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2476 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2477 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2478 examining the synonym.
2479 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2481 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2482 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2484 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2485 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2486 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2487 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2488 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2489 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2490 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2491 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2492 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2493 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2494 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2495 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2497 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2498 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2499 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2500 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2501 stream position information.
2502 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2503 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2504 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2505 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2506 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2507 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2509 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2510 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2512 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2513 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2514 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2515 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2516 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2517 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2518 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2520 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2522 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2523 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2524 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2525 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2526 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2527 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2528 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2529 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2530 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2531 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2532 the "SYS" logical host.
2533 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2534 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2535 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2536 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2537 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2538 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2539 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2540 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2541 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2543 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2544 shift greater than 32.
2545 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2546 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2547 in some circumstances.
2549 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2550 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2551 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2552 environments like SLIME.
2553 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2554 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2555 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2556 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2557 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2558 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2559 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2560 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2561 argument types for all arguments.
2562 * various threading fixes
2563 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2564 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2565 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2566 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2568 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2569 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2570 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2571 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2572 arguments to a full call.
2573 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2574 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2575 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2576 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2578 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2579 inserts a space where necessary.
2580 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2581 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2582 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2583 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2584 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2585 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2586 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2587 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2588 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2589 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2590 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2591 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2593 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2594 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2595 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2597 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2599 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2600 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2601 argument and negative second.
2602 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2603 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2604 interval, containing 0.
2605 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2607 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2608 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2610 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2611 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2612 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2613 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2614 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2615 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2616 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2617 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2618 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2619 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2620 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2621 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2622 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2623 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2624 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2625 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2626 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2627 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2628 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2629 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2630 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2631 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2632 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2633 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2634 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2635 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2636 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2637 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2638 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2640 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2641 platform now returns the right answer.
2642 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2643 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2644 precomputation is now tunable.
2645 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2646 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2647 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2648 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2649 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2650 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2651 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2652 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2653 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2654 has been added for the alpha.
2655 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2656 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2657 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2658 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2659 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2660 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2661 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2663 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2664 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2665 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2667 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2668 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2669 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2670 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2671 might be pseudo-atomic.
2672 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2673 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2675 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2677 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2679 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2680 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2681 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2682 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2683 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2684 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2686 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2687 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2688 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2689 small float arguments.
2690 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2692 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2693 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2694 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2695 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2696 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2697 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2699 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2701 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2702 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2703 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2704 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2705 with negative last argument.
2706 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2707 an error during type derivation.
2708 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2710 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2711 generates a 32-bit binary.
2712 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2713 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2714 data structures referred to above).
2716 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2717 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2718 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2719 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2720 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2721 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2722 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2723 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2724 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2725 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2726 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2727 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2729 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2730 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2732 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2733 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2734 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2735 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2736 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2737 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2738 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2739 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2740 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2741 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2742 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2743 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2744 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2745 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2746 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2747 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2748 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2749 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2750 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2751 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2752 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2753 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2754 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2755 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2756 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2757 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2758 optimization quality.
2759 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2760 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2761 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2762 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2763 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2764 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2765 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2766 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2767 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2768 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2769 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2770 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2771 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2772 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2773 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2774 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2775 calling the generic function.
2776 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2777 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2778 obscure ANSI requirements
2780 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2781 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2782 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2783 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2784 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2785 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2786 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2787 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2788 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2789 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2791 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2792 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2793 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2794 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2795 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2796 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2797 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2798 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2799 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2800 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2801 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2802 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2803 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2804 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2805 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2806 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2807 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2808 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2809 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2810 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2812 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2813 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2814 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2815 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2817 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2818 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2819 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2820 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2821 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2822 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2823 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2824 the class in more cases than previously.
2825 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2826 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2827 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2828 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2829 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2830 without lambda list.
2831 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2832 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2833 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2834 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2835 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2836 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2838 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2839 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2840 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2842 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2843 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2844 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2845 were silently accepted).
2846 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2847 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2848 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2849 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2850 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2851 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2852 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2853 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2854 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2855 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2856 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2857 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2858 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2859 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2861 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2862 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2863 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2864 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2865 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2866 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2868 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2869 keywords or constants is permissible.
2870 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2871 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2872 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2873 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2874 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2875 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2876 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2877 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2879 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2880 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2881 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2882 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2883 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2884 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2885 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2887 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2889 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2890 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2891 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2892 respectively change and preserve the value.
2893 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2894 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2895 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2896 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2897 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2898 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2899 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2900 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2901 their use properly signals an error now.
2902 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2903 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2904 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2905 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2906 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2907 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2908 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2909 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2910 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2911 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2912 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2913 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2914 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2915 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2916 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2917 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2918 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2919 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2920 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2921 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2922 causes a type error.
2923 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2924 association between the name and a class.
2925 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2926 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2927 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2928 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2929 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2930 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2932 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2933 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2934 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2935 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2937 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2938 which its argument is a member.
2939 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2940 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2941 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2942 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2943 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2944 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2945 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2946 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2947 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2949 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2950 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2951 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2952 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2953 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2954 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2955 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2957 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2958 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2959 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2960 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2961 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2962 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2963 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2964 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2965 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2966 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2967 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2968 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2969 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2970 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2972 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2973 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2974 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2975 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2976 superclasses are applied.
2977 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2978 no method was removed.
2979 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2980 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2981 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2982 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2984 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2986 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2987 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2988 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2989 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2990 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2991 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2992 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2993 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2994 function lambda list.
2995 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2997 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2998 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2999 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
3000 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
3002 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
3003 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
3004 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
3005 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
3006 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
3007 they look for GNU "make".
3009 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
3010 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
3011 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
3012 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
3014 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
3015 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
3016 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
3017 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
3018 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
3019 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
3020 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
3021 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
3022 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
3023 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
3025 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
3026 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
3027 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
3028 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
3029 libraries, and will know who they are.
3030 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
3031 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
3032 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
3033 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
3034 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
3035 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
3036 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
3037 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
3039 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
3040 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
3041 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3042 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
3043 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
3044 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
3045 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
3046 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
3047 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
3048 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
3049 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3050 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
3052 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
3053 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
3054 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
3055 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
3056 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3057 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
3058 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
3059 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
3060 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
3062 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
3063 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
3064 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
3065 this you were probably losing anyway.
3066 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
3067 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
3068 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
3069 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
3070 with names from the CL package.
3071 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
3072 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
3073 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
3074 documentation string.
3075 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3076 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
3078 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
3079 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
3080 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
3081 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
3083 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
3084 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
3086 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
3087 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3088 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
3090 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
3091 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
3092 arguments contain duplicated elements.
3093 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
3094 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
3095 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
3096 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
3097 in question is unbound.
3098 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
3099 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
3100 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
3101 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
3102 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
3104 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
3106 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
3107 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
3108 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
3109 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
3110 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
3111 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
3112 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
3113 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
3114 by Antonio Martinez)
3115 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
3116 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3117 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
3118 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
3119 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
3120 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
3121 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
3122 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3123 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
3124 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
3125 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
3126 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
3127 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
3128 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
3129 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
3130 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
3131 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
3132 on malformed property lists;
3134 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
3135 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
3136 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
3137 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
3138 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
3139 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
3140 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
3141 modules in this release include:
3142 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
3143 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
3144 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
3145 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3146 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
3148 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
3149 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
3150 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3151 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3152 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
3153 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
3154 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
3155 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
3157 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
3158 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
3159 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
3160 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
3161 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
3162 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
3163 the lexical environment.
3164 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
3165 unprintable packages can now be defined.
3166 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
3167 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3168 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
3169 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3170 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
3171 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
3172 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
3173 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
3174 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
3175 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
3176 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
3177 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
3178 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3179 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
3180 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3181 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
3182 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
3183 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
3184 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3185 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
3186 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
3187 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
3188 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
3190 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
3191 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
3192 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3193 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3194 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
3195 not just nonnegative fixnums;
3196 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
3197 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
3198 freshly-consed result bit-array);
3199 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
3201 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
3202 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
3204 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
3205 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
3206 cases are accurately computed;
3207 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
3208 if it is in the last clause;
3209 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
3211 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
3212 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
3213 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
3214 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
3216 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
3217 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
3218 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
3219 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
3220 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
3222 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
3223 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
3224 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
3225 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
3227 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3228 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
3229 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
3230 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
3231 not cause a type error;
3232 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
3234 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
3235 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
3236 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
3237 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
3238 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
3239 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
3240 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
3241 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
3243 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
3244 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
3245 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
3246 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3247 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3248 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3250 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3251 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3253 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3254 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3255 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3256 only for symbols in the CL package.
3257 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3258 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3259 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3260 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3261 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3263 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3264 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3265 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3266 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3267 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3268 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3269 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3270 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3271 conditional loop clause;
3272 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3273 signals a type error iff it should.
3274 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3275 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3276 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3277 argument) no longer signals an error;
3278 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3279 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3280 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3282 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3283 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3284 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3286 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3287 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3288 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3289 functionality on said platforms verified.
3290 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3291 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3293 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3294 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3295 component indicating that directory.
3296 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3297 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3298 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3299 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3300 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3301 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3303 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3304 primary methods with no specializers;
3305 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3307 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3308 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3309 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3310 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3312 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3313 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3314 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3316 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3317 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3318 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3319 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3320 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3321 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3322 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3323 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3324 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3325 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3326 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3328 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3329 value producing form;
3330 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3331 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3332 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3334 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3335 is not a valid sequence index;
3336 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3337 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3338 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3339 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3341 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3342 symbol-macro places;
3343 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3344 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3346 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3348 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3350 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3351 invariant when deleting code.
3352 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3353 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3355 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3356 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3357 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3359 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3360 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3362 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3363 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3364 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3365 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3367 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3368 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3369 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3370 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3372 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3373 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3374 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3375 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3376 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3377 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3378 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3379 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3380 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3381 sbcl and .core files.)
3382 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3383 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3384 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3385 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3386 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3387 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3388 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3390 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3391 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3392 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3393 argument precedence order.
3394 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3395 derived types contradict their declared type.
3396 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3397 so it can be non-toplevel.
3398 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3399 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3400 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3401 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3402 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3404 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3405 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3406 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3407 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3408 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3409 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3410 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3411 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3412 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3413 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3414 symbol macro only once
3415 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3416 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3417 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3420 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3421 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3422 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3423 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3424 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3425 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3426 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3427 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3428 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3429 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3430 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3431 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3433 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3434 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3435 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3436 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3437 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3438 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3440 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3442 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3443 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3444 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3445 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3446 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3447 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3448 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3449 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3450 ways in different special cases
3451 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3453 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3454 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3455 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3456 are no longer optimized away.
3457 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3458 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3459 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3460 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3461 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3462 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3463 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3464 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3467 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3468 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3469 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3470 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3471 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3472 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3473 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3475 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3476 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3477 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3478 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3479 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3480 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3481 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3482 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3483 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3484 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3485 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3486 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3487 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3488 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3489 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3490 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3491 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3492 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3493 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3494 that are names of constants or global variables.
3495 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3496 alien routines with docstrings.
3497 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3498 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3500 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3501 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3502 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3503 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3504 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3505 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3506 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3507 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3508 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3509 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3510 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3511 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3512 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3513 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3514 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3515 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3516 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3517 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3518 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3519 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3520 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3521 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3522 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3524 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3525 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3527 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3528 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3529 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3530 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3531 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3532 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3533 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3534 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3535 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3536 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3538 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3539 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3540 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3541 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3542 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3543 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3544 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3545 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3546 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3547 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3548 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3549 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3550 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3551 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3552 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3553 is no longer a static symbol.)
3555 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3556 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3557 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3558 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3559 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3561 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3562 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3564 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3565 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3566 to David Lichteblau)
3567 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3568 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3569 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3571 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3572 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3573 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3574 count as they should.
3575 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3576 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3577 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3578 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3579 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3580 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3581 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3582 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3583 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3584 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3585 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3586 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3587 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3588 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3589 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3591 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3592 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3593 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3595 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3597 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3598 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3599 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3600 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3601 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3602 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3603 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3605 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3606 to Christophe Rhodes)
3607 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3608 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3609 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3610 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3611 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3612 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3613 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3615 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3616 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3617 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3618 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3619 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3620 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3621 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3622 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3623 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3624 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3625 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3626 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3627 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3629 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3630 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3631 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3632 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3633 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3634 (thanks to coreythomas)
3635 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3636 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3637 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3638 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3639 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3641 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3642 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3643 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3644 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3645 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3646 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3647 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3648 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3649 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3650 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3651 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3652 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3653 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3655 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3656 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3659 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3660 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3661 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3662 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3663 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3664 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3665 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3666 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3667 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3668 systems than the old 4M value was)
3669 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3670 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3671 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3672 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3673 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3674 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3675 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3677 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3678 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3679 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3680 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3681 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3683 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3684 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3685 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3686 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3687 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3688 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3689 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3690 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3692 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3693 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3694 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3695 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3696 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3697 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3698 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3699 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3701 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3702 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3703 * several changes related to debugging:
3704 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3705 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3706 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3707 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3708 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3709 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3710 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3713 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3715 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3716 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3717 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3718 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3719 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3720 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3721 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3722 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3724 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3725 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3726 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3727 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3728 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3729 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3730 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3731 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3732 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3733 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3734 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3735 file format number to change again.
3737 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3738 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3739 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3740 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3742 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3743 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3744 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3745 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3746 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3747 FUNCALL on the result.
3748 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3749 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3750 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3751 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3752 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3753 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3754 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3755 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3757 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3758 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3759 the old compiler produced.
3760 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3761 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3762 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3763 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3764 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3765 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3766 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3767 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3768 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3769 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3770 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3771 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3772 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3773 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3774 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3775 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3776 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3777 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3778 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3779 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3780 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3781 straightened out in some future version.)
3782 * minor incompatible changes:
3783 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3784 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3785 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3786 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3787 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3788 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3789 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3790 implementation dependent:
3791 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3792 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3793 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3794 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3795 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3796 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3797 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3798 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3800 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3802 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3803 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3804 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3805 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3806 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3807 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3808 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3809 are no longer used for output.
3810 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3811 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3812 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3813 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3814 increasing it even more.)
3815 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3816 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3817 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3819 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3820 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3821 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3822 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3823 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3824 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3825 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3826 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3827 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3828 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3829 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3830 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3831 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3832 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3833 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3834 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3835 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3836 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3837 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3838 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3839 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3840 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3841 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3842 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3843 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3844 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3845 built into the system.
3846 * many other bug fixes
3847 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3848 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3849 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3850 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3851 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3853 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3854 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3855 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3856 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3857 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3858 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3859 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3860 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3861 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3862 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3863 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3865 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3866 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3867 and several other LOOP problems as well
3868 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3869 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3870 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3871 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3872 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3873 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3874 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3875 *** a bug in APROPOS
3876 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3877 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3878 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3879 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3880 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3881 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3882 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3883 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3884 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3885 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3886 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3887 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3888 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3889 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3890 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3892 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3893 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3894 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3895 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3896 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3897 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3898 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3899 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3900 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3901 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3902 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3903 some of which are apparent above.
3905 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3906 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3907 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3908 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3909 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3910 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3911 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3912 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3913 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3914 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3915 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3916 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3917 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3918 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3919 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3920 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3921 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3922 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3923 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3924 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3925 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3926 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3927 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3928 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3929 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3930 different return types.
3931 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3932 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3933 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3934 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3935 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3936 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3937 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3938 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3939 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3940 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3942 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3943 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3944 does the right thing.
3945 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3946 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3947 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3948 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3949 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3950 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3951 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3952 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3953 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3954 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3955 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3956 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3957 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3958 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3959 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3960 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3961 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3962 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3963 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3964 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3965 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3966 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3967 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3968 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3969 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3970 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3971 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3972 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3973 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3974 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3975 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3976 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3977 since historically most system changes which required version
3978 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3979 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3982 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3983 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3984 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3985 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3986 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3987 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3988 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3989 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3990 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3991 half a dozen others elsewhere
3992 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3993 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3994 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3995 as flaky as they were.
3996 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3997 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3998 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3999 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
4000 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
4001 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
4002 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
4003 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
4005 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
4006 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
4007 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
4008 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4009 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
4010 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
4011 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
4012 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
4013 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
4014 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
4015 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
4016 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
4017 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
4018 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
4019 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
4020 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
4021 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
4022 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
4023 more obscure bugs as well
4024 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
4025 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
4026 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
4027 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
4028 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
4029 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
4030 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
4031 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
4032 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
4033 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
4034 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
4036 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
4037 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
4039 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
4041 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4042 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
4043 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
4044 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
4045 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
4046 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
4047 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
4048 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
4049 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
4050 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
4051 are local in this sense.)
4052 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
4053 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
4054 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
4055 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
4056 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
4057 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
4058 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4059 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
4060 system's STREAM objects.
4061 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
4062 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4063 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
4064 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4065 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
4066 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
4067 environment from the original process instead of starting the
4068 new process in an empty environment.
4069 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
4070 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
4071 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
4072 for porting convenience.
4073 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
4074 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
4076 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
4078 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
4079 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
4080 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
4081 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
4082 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
4083 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
4084 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
4085 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
4086 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
4087 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
4088 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
4089 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4090 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
4091 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
4092 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
4093 many fewer weird special cases.
4094 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
4095 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
4096 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4097 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
4098 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
4099 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
4100 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
4101 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
4102 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
4103 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4104 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
4107 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
4109 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
4110 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
4111 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
4113 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
4114 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
4115 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
4116 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
4117 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
4118 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
4119 should be constructed the same way as before.
4120 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
4121 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
4122 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
4123 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
4124 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
4125 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
4126 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
4127 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
4128 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
4129 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
4130 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
4131 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
4132 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
4133 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
4134 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
4135 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
4136 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
4137 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
4138 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
4139 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
4140 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
4141 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
4143 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
4144 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
4145 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
4146 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
4147 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
4148 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
4149 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
4150 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
4152 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
4154 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
4155 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
4156 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
4157 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
4158 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
4160 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
4161 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
4162 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
4163 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
4164 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
4165 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
4166 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
4167 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
4168 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
4169 and Douglas Crosher.
4170 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
4171 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
4172 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
4174 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
4175 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
4176 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
4177 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
4178 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
4179 undefined function error.
4180 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
4181 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
4182 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
4183 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
4184 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
4185 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
4186 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
4187 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
4188 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
4189 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
4190 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
4191 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
4192 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
4194 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
4196 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
4197 CVS repository on my home machine).
4198 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
4199 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
4200 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
4201 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
4202 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
4203 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
4204 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
4205 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
4206 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
4207 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
4208 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
4209 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
4210 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
4211 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
4212 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
4213 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
4214 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
4215 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
4216 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
4217 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
4218 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
4219 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
4221 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
4222 FreeBSD have been added.
4223 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
4224 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
4225 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
4226 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
4227 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
4228 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
4230 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
4231 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
4232 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
4233 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
4234 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
4235 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
4236 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
4237 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
4239 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
4240 away by constant folding
4241 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
4242 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
4243 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
4244 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
4245 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
4246 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4247 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4248 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4249 diff-related operations.
4250 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4251 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4253 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4255 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4256 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4257 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4258 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4259 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4260 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4261 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4262 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4263 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4264 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4265 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4266 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4267 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4268 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4269 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4270 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4271 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4272 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4273 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4274 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4275 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4276 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4277 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4278 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4279 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4280 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4281 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4282 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4283 instead of (VALUES T T).
4284 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4285 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4286 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4287 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4288 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4289 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4290 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4291 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4292 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4293 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4294 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4295 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4296 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4297 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4298 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4299 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4300 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4301 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4302 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4303 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4304 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4305 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4306 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4307 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4308 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4309 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4310 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4311 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4312 fasl files for cold load.
4313 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4314 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4315 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4316 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4317 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4318 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4319 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4320 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4321 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4322 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4323 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4325 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4326 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4327 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4328 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4329 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4330 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4331 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4332 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4333 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4334 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4335 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4336 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4337 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4338 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4339 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4340 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4341 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4343 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4345 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4346 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4347 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4348 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4349 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4350 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4351 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4352 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4353 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4354 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4355 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4356 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4357 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4358 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4359 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4360 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4361 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4362 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4364 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4365 as required by ANSI.
4366 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4367 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4368 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4369 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4371 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4372 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4373 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4374 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4375 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4376 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4377 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4378 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4380 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4381 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4382 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4383 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4385 is now basically equivalent to
4386 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4387 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4389 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4390 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4391 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4392 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4393 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4394 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4395 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4396 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4397 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4398 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4399 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4400 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4401 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4402 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4403 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4404 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4405 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4406 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4407 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4408 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4409 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4410 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4411 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4413 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4415 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4416 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4417 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4418 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4419 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4420 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4421 can build without error under CMU CL.
4423 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4425 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4426 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4427 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4428 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4429 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4430 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4431 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4432 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4433 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4434 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4435 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4436 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4437 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4438 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4439 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4440 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4441 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4442 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4443 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4444 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4445 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4446 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4447 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4448 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4450 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4451 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4452 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4453 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4454 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4455 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4456 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4457 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4458 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4459 it were currently supported.
4460 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4461 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4462 having to maintain patches.
4463 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4464 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4466 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4468 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4469 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4470 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4471 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4472 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4473 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4474 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4475 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4476 * various new style warnings:
4477 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4478 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4479 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4480 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4481 as specified by ANSI.
4482 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4483 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4484 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4485 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4486 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4487 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4488 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4489 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4490 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4491 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4492 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4493 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4494 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4495 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4496 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4497 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4498 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4499 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4500 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4501 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4502 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4503 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4506 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4508 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4509 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4510 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4511 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4512 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4513 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4514 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4515 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4516 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4518 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4519 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4520 the report form was printed.)
4521 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4522 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4523 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4524 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4525 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4526 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4527 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4528 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4529 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4530 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4531 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4532 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4533 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4534 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4535 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4536 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4537 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4538 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4539 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4540 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4541 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4542 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4543 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4544 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4545 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4546 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4547 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4548 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4549 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4550 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4551 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4552 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4553 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4554 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4555 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4556 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4557 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4558 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4559 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4560 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4561 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4562 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4563 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4564 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4565 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4566 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4567 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4568 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4569 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4570 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4571 know more about target types.
4572 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4573 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4574 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4575 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4576 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4577 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4579 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4580 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4581 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4582 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4583 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4584 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4585 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4586 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4587 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4588 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4589 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4590 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4591 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4593 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4596 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4598 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4599 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4600 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4601 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4602 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4603 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4604 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4605 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4606 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4607 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4608 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4609 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4610 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4611 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4612 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4613 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4614 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4615 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4616 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4617 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4618 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4619 invisible at the user level.)
4620 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4621 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4622 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4624 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4626 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4627 * tidied up system directory structure
4628 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4629 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4630 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4631 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4632 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4633 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4634 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4635 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4636 * command line argument processing
4637 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4638 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4639 terminating SBCL on EOF
4640 * non-verbose GC by default
4641 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4642 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4643 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4645 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4646 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4647 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4648 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4649 transformed along with everything else.
4650 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4651 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4652 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4653 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4654 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4655 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4656 debugging and testing purposes
4657 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4658 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4659 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4660 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4661 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4662 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4663 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4665 * regularized formatting of source files
4666 * added an install.sh script
4667 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4668 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4669 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4670 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4671 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4672 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4673 was not implemented)
4674 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4675 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4676 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4677 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4678 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4680 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4681 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4682 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4683 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4684 COMPILE-FILE command)
4685 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4686 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4687 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4688 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4689 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4690 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4691 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4692 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4693 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4694 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4695 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4696 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4697 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4698 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4699 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4701 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4702 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4703 known to be able to handle the current sources
4704 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4705 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4706 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4707 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4708 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4709 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4710 * removed host-oops.lisp
4711 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4712 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4713 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4714 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4715 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4716 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by